InSpectre: See whether your PC's protected from Meltdown and Spectre
COMPUTER WORLD If you’re wondering whether your computer is susceptible to the latest bête noir, Meltdown and Spectre, you can…
IDG Contributor Network: Fight iPhone and Android smartphone device addiction
COMPUTER WORLD Suddenly, we are having a debate on device addiction of smartphones like Apple iPhone and Google Android. I…
Microsoft's mystifying Meltdown/Spectre patches for AMD processors
COMPUTER WORLD I’ve seen a lot of bizarre Microsoft patches-of-patches, but the new patches for AMD processors are in a…
IDG Contributor Network: CES 2018: Microsoft’s broad near-term vision of our very different technology future
COMPUTER WORLD [Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.] I got to sit down with Microsoft prior to the…
CES 2018: Apple’s CarPlay wins friends and frenemies
COMPUTER WORLD Apple may (or may not) have scaled-back its ambition to build its own connected vehicles, but at CES…
Maersk, IBM create world's first blockchain-based, electronic shipping platform
COMPUTER WORLD Maersk and IBM today announced a joint venture to deploy a blockchain-based electronic shipping system that will digitize…
How to make sure Windows gets the right patches coming to it
COMPUTER WORLD The Windows emergency security updates issued by Microsoft earlier this month came with an unprecedented prerequisite – a…
See how much that helped?
COMPUTER WORLD Flashback to the 1980s, when this pilot fish at a big computer vendor is working on a team…
How to create and edit PDFs in Microsoft Word
COMPUTER WORLD You’ve been asked to supply a letter of reference by email. You compose one in Microsoft Word —…
Will Apple finally pay a price for keeping secrets?
COMPUTER WORLD At first I thought Apple would get away with deliberately slowing down its older iPhones when their batteries…